Word: tormenting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...prison world that the author depicts in most of his books is often compared to hell or a nightmare. Yet the author admits, "I have come almost to love that monstrous world." For, along with bestial cruelty and institutional torment, he found great courage and comradeship among fellow prisoners in the Archipelago. The memory of it has permanently shaped his attitude toward mankind. The "fearlessness of those who have lost everything" encourages him. "Own nothing," he counsels those who have been arrested. A food package, he warns, "transforms you from a free though hungry person into one who is anxious...
PETROS ESCAPED unhurt, but he has to live with the torment of others gnawing at him. At least 400 people died in Athens, Patras, Salonika; the regime admits to arresting 866 people, 475 of whom were listed as workers. Many of these people are being held in more than 250 detention and torture facilities that scatter the countryside for the first time since Nazi German occupation. Every little town and village has one; there are well known camps on the islands of Laros and Yiaros; six such facilities are tucked into the streets of Athens...
...suddenly become a factor in world politics. He is waited upon by U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, and he does his own shuttling to other Arab capitals. His international importance could be short-lived. But at this particular turn in the long torment of the Middle East, there is no question that Assad and Syria have the power to hasten a peace settlement significantly or send everybody back to stalemate...
...thing he said in his gloating hour of torment stuck in my mind. And while I usually reject everything that comes out of his mouth on principle, this tidbit wouldn't go away...
...rather overly literary way. This is to say nothing of his lavish, interior decorator's use of mysticism and the occult. The novel does have considerable power and cohesiveness. But it is the cohesiveness of a desperately inventive mind that bends all to fit its private torment. It is not condescending to say, however, that Under the Volcano is the century's greatest novel about alcoholism, written by a man who deserves-and gets from Biographer Day-understanding, sympathy and respect...